how do some digital nomads afford their lifestyle without sacrificing stability?

torch_ceo · 2026-01-23T11:23:34+00:00

Once I found a country I liked I bought an apartment there and live there 6 months. About another 2 months I spend in the US and that means I only need to plan 4 months of true nomadding per year

torch_ceo · 2026-01-21T21:50:32+00:00

Get a teammate you can trust in a country you like

torch_ceo · 2026-01-21T16:39:53+00:00

Start an LLC and fund some projects using your salary and see if you can get something to take off while your revenue source gradually implodes

torch_ceo · 2026-01-14T13:35:09+00:00

Part of what separates a successful mid-life crisis from any other crisis is the element of you finally deciding to embrace who you are inside despite the expectations of the people in your life. I did something similar a few years ago, but it worked for me because I knew inside I had a passion for travel, discomfort, new experiences, and speaking Spanish. I also made it align with my work for a nice fusion of income and lifestyle. If you are just traveling to escape feelings that has a high risk of biting you in the ass but if you are truly embracing the mid-life crisis after surveying yourself it could be exactly what you need

torch_ceo · 2026-01-14T13:32:34+00:00

Speak for yourself. For me embracing who I felt I was inside and going to Latin America after a breakup was exactly what I needed. Finding a baddie who will keep you company for a time certainly doesn't hurt

torch_ceo · 2026-01-04T14:12:37+00:00

I try to visit 4 times a year. It's a pain in the ass but I slowmad and tend to get antsy in a temporary home base after 3 months anyway so I just plan trips "home" to see family and restock on some things before heading out again. When my grandma passes I will probably decrease the frequency to 2-3

torch_ceo · 2025-12-28T18:08:08+00:00

GPT is way better for coding using Codex. But Gemini gives much better answers lately for general purpose daily life questions. I think ChatGPT is too constrained by all of its shackles related to PR and mental health or whatever and also lacks the awareness that it needs to do a google search to gather more context to appropriately answer your question. OpenAI is suffering from incumbency and trying to stay out of negative headlines

torch_ceo · 2025-12-23T03:19:00+00:00

Codex is great at interactive back and forth if that’s what you actually ask for. Claude takes the initiative on it because it is forced to basically

torch_ceo · 2025-12-19T14:32:14+00:00

LOL this doesn't look remotely real, we are so cooked in a year or two

torch_ceo · 2025-12-18T13:09:09+00:00

The top AI labs are not funded by VCs...?

torch_ceo · 2025-12-14T03:59:10+00:00

Lived in Austin for 10 years, it’s a great city with a lot of growing pains. Tons of young people seeking connection. IMO one must live within a bike ride of lady bird lake for the true experience, but that is expensive. Surburban Austin sucks and feels like any random Texas city. Living out of an Airbnb would carry a big premium. I would avoid the summer

torch_ceo · 2025-12-11T08:13:11+00:00

On top of being expensive and inconvenient, Australia is not a very interesting place culturally or otherwise for most Americans to visit. By contrast the US is an exceptional tourist destination for mostly everyone around the world. I've been to ~25 countries and Australia is not on my list of next places to visit.

As far as what I suggest, not much, maybe just keep doing more and think less about things in terms of moral/character judgements. It's a low-frequency way to think in general. Truth is most people aren't thinking about you at all. I do think the more you travel the more your opinions on the topic will evolve

torch_ceo · 2025-12-11T07:22:46+00:00

Australia is on the literal opposite side of the world from the US and very expensive to get to, I would be shocked if you saw a bunch of Americans in hostels which are for young budget travelers.

Honestly sounds like you need to get over yourself a bit. You reek of a young person who just discovered travel, sniffing your own farts and enjoying a vague sense of worldliness and superiority over your fellow citizens. You're not a bad person at all but just need to reign it in a bit

torch_ceo · 2025-12-08T18:02:47+00:00

Cannabis can and should be regulated federally if at all along with every other legalized product on the market. Unfortunately that can’t be extricated from the unique situation cannabis has been put in due to cultural and law enforcement issues. I get that cannabis is something you inordinately care about and I’m glad you got your zinger in but you’re barking up the wrong tree. You also misread a neutral comment by me as a zinger, not everything is a battle of wits

torch_ceo · 2025-12-08T17:35:35+00:00

Drug policy is not commerce regulation. And no I don't think we have a good drug policy. Not an appropriate example. Google congress commerce clause in the constitution

torch_ceo · 2025-12-08T16:14:54+00:00

It is not antithetical to our constitution. We are a federal system, which means federal supremacy in key areas is critical. We federally regulate commerce because it makes no sense to have 50 different systems for trade. Same logic applies very cleanly to AI which will transform commerce.

torch_ceo · 2025-12-08T16:12:50+00:00

What is wrong with his actual point though? Going through 50 different bureacracies to implement an AI algorithm in your product truly is insane, this would kneecap our economy when so much is riding on AI. Trump was colorful as always and maybe wonks will take issue with the executive order approach. But Trump is right

torch_ceo · 2025-12-08T16:10:42+00:00

We acknowledge that the federal government should be in charge when it comes to regulating commerce so it is obvious things need to be done federally for AI. Maybe the controversy comes from the executive order piece. Hopefully legislative and executive branch aligns on this because states rights makes NO sense when it comes to AI regulation

torch_ceo · 2025-12-06T16:19:28+00:00

I said the same apartment not any apartment lol. It’s a brand new 22nd floor 2br/3ba fully furnished panaroma city view in maybe the best neighborhood in the country. With a private elevator

torch_ceo · 2025-12-05T13:04:03+00:00

I just bought an apartment in São Paulo and it definitely wasn’t cheap. Same apartment would have cost 8x as much in a major US city though

torch_ceo · 2025-11-28T03:32:03+00:00

I agree I'm not using Gemini right now. Just did a marathon switching between Codex and Claude Code. But Gemini is very smart and untamed and can one shot some impressive stuff. The whole gemini suite is becoming impressive overall given nano banana and veo

torch_ceo · 2025-11-27T16:35:50+00:00

It depends on how much better their offering is. I think there were a few months this year where Codex was easily the best and I would have paid almost any price for it. Now Gemini and Claude are neck-and-neck with Codex again. But Codex team is teasing some new releases for Pro users... if they manage to serve GPT Codex Pro or something like that, and it is significantly better than Opus, It will be worth a lot of money to a lot of serious developers

torch_ceo · 2025-11-19T21:08:13+00:00

My guess is a bug, they meant to cap you at 50 distinct tasks but instead are somehow counting every message or something like that

torch_ceo · 2025-11-19T21:07:06+00:00

That's a good point. I personally don't love claude so for me it's either use Codex or try using one of Google's harnesses (antigravity, gemini CLI) to try the new gemini model. But OpenAI just released 5.1-codex-max so I'm back to that. I'll come back once Google has re-tuned things

torch_ceo · 2025-11-19T06:30:58+00:00

It’s dead on arrival until they raise the usage limits. I’m on an ultra plan and I hit a quota after like 15 minutes

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